Comments on: PowerPivot – XXL, Excel on Steroids

By: Tom Gleeson

Tom Gleeson — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:58:48 +0000

Not sure; there’s an option to pick “other” OLEDB providers to import data, but don’t know if that would include OLEDB for OLAP drivers, easy to check.

The better option might be to directly work with the backing star-schema models that typically feed Essbase cubes in datawarehouse environments.

Tom (not Martyn)

By: sroux

sroux — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:41:49 +0000

Hi Martyn,

Would you know or think if we could plug PowerPivot on top of Essbase (I was thinking about the Essbase XMLA connector)?

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TAG Cubes – SQLite Star Query Part III « Gobán Saor — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:44:51 +0000

[...] for, is preferable in many situations. This is something that Microsoft have recognised it their Gemini add-in for Excel 2010, but Excel 2010 is a not here yet and it’s likely to be five years or more before it’s [...]

By: Tom Gleeson

Tom Gleeson — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:53:21 +0000

@Seán Eile

Yep, looks like it’s on the way, will be interesting to see it in the flesh.

Tom

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:43:39 +0000

I noted that supposedly the CTP for project gemini will be available to Office 2010 testers and may come as early as mid to late August.

-A different Sean.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:54:01 +0000

I am going to look into Twitter more! And I’ll stay tuned for this product/hook. I agree that there is very little time left after you take out work and family.

Thanks.

By: Tom Gleeson

Tom Gleeson — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:02:54 +0000

Hi Seán

Good to hear from you again, and yes, Twitter has eaten into my blogging time but in a good way. I post things on Twitter than before would have either remained in my brain or in the dark recesses of my del.icio.us account. I’ve become a fan of micro-blogging, but of course blog posts will always be necessary for the “bigger ideas”.

The other great advantage of Twitter is the people you get to know, not in a ‘yay, lets all be best-friends’ sort of way, more like how you get to know people you keep on coming across on school runs, or community events or product launches. Why not join up?

As for Excel/SQLite I’m bit by bit building something that I intend to release, mainly by refactoring ‘old work’ (which by the nature of what we do, tends to ‘hacked together’ to a get a specific job done) into something more robust and generic. I’ve been mainly doing it for myself (but they say the best software is that which “scratches the author’s itch first”) so making it public was not my priority – paid work and life-in-general comes first – but I’m starting to think that there’s a demand out there for such a product, and more importantly for the services associated with it, so I’ve started to invest more time in finishing it off to use as a marketing ‘hook’ for my paid work. So as they say, stay tuned…

Tom

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:31:16 +0000

Good to see you posting again (it seems Twitter is taking up a lot of blogging time . This is excellent information.

I agree that Excel is “the” tool of choice for business. As such they want to send you files in Excel and want their reports created in Excel. So Project Gemini will be a big hit with serious Excel users.

I have not tried the Excel/SQLite combination you describe. Serious lack of expertise in VBA and C/C++ side are my main problem. Do you have a test prototype that you can share with the world that might help beginners like me?

Sean